The East Brunswick/Spotswood Golden Bear Charger Tiny Mites (ages 5-7) had a condensed game schedule last week due to the poor weather. They had their opening game on Wednesday, Sept. 6 as well as one on Sunday, Sept. 10. Wednesday’s game got off to a fast start with Tucker Nevin making an awesome touchdown for the Blue Team. The Gold Team was led by Lucas Espada with a great defensive stand. But the Blue Team opened it up with a 50-yard run by Austin Taylor resulting in a touchdown. Although the Gold Team put up a tough defensive battle, the Blue Team scored again by Zahir Jackson, ending the game with the Blue Team winning 21-0. Sunday’s game started off as a battle of defenses. The Gold Team’s defensive efforts were led by Tylor Jacobs and Lucas Espada. It was a scoreless game until the fourth quarter when Austin Taylor managed to get past the Gold Team’s defense and scored the game’s only touchdown, ending the game with the Blue Team winning, 7-0.
The Golden Bear Charger Junior Midgets beat the Franklin Warriors, 26-6, this past weekend. After Franklin scored a 55-yard dash on their first play from scrimmage, GBC’s defense held them to 78 total yards, led by Jeff Lynch and Kevin Behan. GBC took their next possession 66 yards, capped by a Garret Walters two-yard plunge. In the second quarter QB Dean Vitale darted 25 yards for a GBC 13-6 half-time lead. In the third quarter Vitale scored again from the nine, set up by a 32-yard strike to Mark Kukoda. Walters scored again from 13 yards out to finish it 26-6. Garret Cuddy had 81 yards on 16 carries. GBC will host Carteret Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
The Old Bridge Revolution, a newly formed U12 girls soccer team opened the fall season away against a tough Middletown team. Against a fast Middletown offense, the Revolution defense led by goalie Kelly Cameron, defenders Natasha Amaro, Kelsey Dunnigan, Emily Garcia, Kaitlyn Safchinsky and Amber Vargas, denied them several times in the early going. Midway through the first half, Middletown scored what would be the only goal of the game on a perfectly placed shot. The Revolution offense started to gel in the second half and had several chances but unfortunately were stopped by some fine goalkeeping. Kelsiann Acer, Tonilynn Taranto, Alanna Perotta and Kimmie D’Ermilio were some of the players applying pressure. Super all-around play was shown by Natalie Principato, Megan Huddy, Melissa Jerome, Kristen Jezycki and Sydney Martinez. The future certainly looks promising for this team. The Revolution are coached by Tony Taranto and Rui Amaro.
The East Brunswick Rockets U13 boys travel soccer team just took first place in the Piscataway Fall Classic Soccer Tournament with a perfect record of 4-0. Team members are Andrew Au-Yeung, Zach Azria, Doug Bason, Mohit Bhatia, John Michael Bicho, Andrew Chimento, Rahul Guha, Timmy Khalil, Konnor Kish, Joseph Mekaeil, Rimon Mekhail, Robbie Moore, Jamie Palmer, Rohan Rao, Stephen Ripp, Carlos Torrelio and Kevin Wood.
Garden State Baseball League is looking for fine amateur baseball teams in the Central Jersey Area who are interested in some competitive wood bat games on Sundays this September. They are looking for teams within a 13U to 16U bracket and 17U and older. They will share the costs of umpires at your field or theirs. Please contact Frank at the office at (732) 382-4610 or (732) 978-4059.
A Central Jersey Hawks U13 girls (born 1993) AAU team seeks strong, experienced players to join its seventh-place nationally ranked team. Call Kathy Repoli at (732) 577-8839 or e-mail [email protected] for additional information.
The GBC Junior Pee Wees continue to roll over their opponents; this time it was the Hightstown Rams. Safety Levi Holmes, intercepted a Rams pass to stop their first possession. GBC then drove the ball down to the four-yard line, where RB Amir Bell ran in his first touchdown of the day. Later that quarter the Rams came back with a touchdown to tie the game at 7-7. Carl Taylor returned the next kick-off 20 yards, setting GBC up in good field position. At the start of the second quarter, RB Vinny Fiorello broke a 24-yard touchdown run, giving the lead back to GBC, 13-7. On the Rams next possession, GBC’s defense stepped up with pressure from LB Anthony Fischer and DE Michael Allen causing a tipped ball to be intercepted by LB Anthony Burnett. Late in the second quarter, RB Amir Bell exploded with a 50-yard touchdown run. Bell also ran in the extra point, putting GBC ahead 20-7 at the half. In the third quarter, Amir Bell’s interception gave GBC another opportunity to drive the ball down field and score. This time it was RB Anthony Burnett who bulled his way in for the touchdown. The extra point was run in by QB Ryan Smolin. GBC’s defense continued to pressure the Rams in the fourth quarter, as linebackers Anthony Burnett and Matt Martino sacked the Rams’ QB for another loss. On the next play, Amir Bell got his second interception, stopping Hightstown’s last drive. The final score was 27-7.
The following are the results of the Tamarack Women’s Nine-Hole Golf Association’s Sept. 7 outing – Scotch foursome, teams of two averaged handicaps. In first place was the pairing of Marion Batchelor and Joan Hoskins with a score of 36, followed by Bernie Janas and Ronnie Bohn (38), Ann Marie Broehl and Jeanne Reaph (40), and Janet Hefelfinger and Fran Poulin (42).